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STEPHEN P. TALLMAN, OF-DUNELLEN, NEW JERSEY.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 262,707, dated August1'5, 1882.

Application led June 10, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN P. TALLMAN, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Dunellen, Middlesex county,New Jersey, haveinvented certain Improvements in Stock-Gars,

of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of stockcars in which the animals arekept separated by means of partitions, the said partitions being in thenature of exible or yielding gates, arranged, by preference, to turn upedgewise into fixed shallow stalls arranged to house the heads of theanimals. In these cars the shallow stalls are arranged half on one sideof the car and half on the other side, and. two doors are provided, onein each side of the car and at the opposite ends, whereby the cattle maybe loaded and unloaded at either side of the car at will. Such a car isshown and described in my Patent No. 250,461, of December 6,1881.

My present invention embodies certain improvements on the car describedin said patent, and the novel features of the same will be hereinafterdesignated, and particularly defined in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a horizontal section (or sectional plan) ofmy improved oar, taken in the plane of the line 1 l in Figs. 2 and 3.Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively vertical transverse sections (orsectional elevations) taken respectively on lines 2 2 and 3 3 in Fig. 1.Figs. 4t and 5 are detached detail views. Figs.2 and 3 are on a scaletwice that of Fig.- l.

As the doors in my car are about equal in width to two stalls, it isobvious that the partition-gate of the end stall will be aboutoppositethe center of the door. Thus it becomes necessary to provide aspecial means of securing the free end of this gate when down, as, ifthe ordinary elastic fastenin gs were placed on the door, it would notslide, and such an arrangement would make it necessary to close bothdoors before the last gate could be lowered. To provide against thiscontingency is one of the objects of my present invention, and the meansadapted will now be described with reference to Figs. 1 and 2.

A represents in general the sides, roof, oor, Sto., of the car; B, thetwin-membered post in which the partition-gate is pivoted; C, the

gate in general; a a, the cross-slats which form,

the partition between adjacent shallow stalls,

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l and D the opposite door in the side of the car.

These features are in general the same as those shown in my formerpatent.

In order to provide a fastening for the free end of the gate C when itis down, as shown in Fig. 2, and one independent of the door D, Iconstruct a post, E, of twin members, substantially like the post B, andsuspenditloose- 6o ly at b from the car-roof opposite the post B, andnear the door-opening. When the car is being loaded this post is hungup, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2, so as not to obstruct thedoor-opening. A convenient means of hanging it is to provide it with aneye or staple, c, and provide the post B with a hook to engage said eye.When the last two animals are to be placed, this post is released andbrought down to the position shown in Fig. 2, when its 7o lower endrests between two cleats,d d,on the floor, which prevent any sidewisemovement. The gate C is now lowered, and its free end enters the spacebetween the twin members of the post. When down a notch in the loweredge of the gate engages a pin or cross-bar, c, in the post, whichprevents the post from swinging crosswise of the car.

To prevent the gate from being lifted, so as to disengage the gate fromthe pin e, a gravity (or spring) detent, g, is hung between the membersof the post above the gate and arranged to rest over the same. I havebroken away one member of the postin Fig. 2 to clearly show this detent.When the gate is lowered 8 5 its end displaces this detent, as will bewell understood, and when the gate is down the detent falls back overit. Before the gate can be raised this detent must be displaced by hand.9o

By reference to Fig. 1 it will be seen that although there are eightstalls on each side of the car there are eight partitions on one sideand but seven on the other. I find that for convenience in placing theanimals it is desi- 9 5 rable to arrange the eighth or last partition toswing around out of the way. This partition I have designated generallyand arbitrarily by X in Fig. 1, and have shown it therein as swung partway around. of this partition I will now describe with especialreference to Fig. 3. /\\G is a post hinged to the side of the carwitlhinges h h so as to swing horizontally,

The construction roo and this post is connected rigidly to the post B bysuitable ties and braces, t' t'. This particular post B is not fixed inits position in the car, as are the other posts B, but is free to swingaround on the hinges h. To lixit in its position for the time being itmaybe provided with socket-bolts j j, as shown in Fig. 3, or othersuitable or equivalent fastening devices. In order to enable thisswinging partition to be swungin either directiomthe post C stops shortabove the feed-trough H. The gate C in this partition is estopped fromturning back so as to rest on the trough H or against the side of thecar, as this would prevent the partition from swinging freely. Thisresult may be effected in any convenient way-as, for example, byinserting a pin through the post G at lr.. The top rail of the gate willrest against this pin when the pin is turned up.

I find that the animals are apt to rear upon and over the gates,especially when loading them, whereby they injure the gates andthemselves. To prevent this I fix over each gate a rounded bar, I, whichextends entirely across the car from side to side or from the fixedposts B to the opposite sides, as preferred. These bars should not befixed precisely over the gates, but a little to one side, so as not tointerfere with the lifting of the gates. The bars over the end gates inthe car are notnecessary; but I prefer in this case to hinge to the postB (see Fig. 2) a bar, 1', which hangs by the side of said post B whenthe post E is hung up; but when said post E is erected, as in Fig. 2,the free end of this bar I' is raised and secured by a pin, s, or othersuitable means to the post E.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a detached plan on a larger scale of my improvedelastic fastening for the free end ot' the gate when down. Theright-hand side of the figure is in section, to show the internal parts.J is a cast-metal block having a recess, Z, formed in it. constructionleaves two cheeks, m m, to embrace the gate. These blocks are secured tothe sides of the car at the proper points to receive the end stiles ofthe gates when the latter are turned down, and two or more of suchblocks, arranged in a line, one over the other, may be employed for eachgate. To permit the gate to yield a little elastically when pressed fromeither side, I mount in each cheek m a block, a, with a slightly roundedor convex face, and back this block with a spring, o. The block a isheld in place by a bolt, p, free to play longitudinally. Thegate-stileis wedged and elastically held between these blocks n. Thegates are upheld by strips t when in place.

In lying down the animal is apt to be cramped for room and to pressstrongly against the lower slat of the gate. I therefore prefer to makethis slat q of rubber, leather, or other similar yielding fabricstrained between the gate-stiles,

and to make the other slats, r r, of wood. In lieu of' making the slat qof the materials mentioned, however, it might be made of rigidmaterialas wood, for example-and be padded.

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in which all ofthe slats were made from elastic material, as thin woodor steel; but these slats were not flexible int-he sense or to theextent that rubber or leather is flexible. If they were, y

a gate could not be formed of them. I now propose to substitute for thelower slat of such a gate a strained strip of rubber, leather, or othersimilar soft yielding fabric.

I have shown butone of thepartitions hinged, and that is the one nearestthe center of the car; but any one or all may be hinged in the same way,and such hinged partitions may be employed in connection with gates madeto swing horizontally or to be turned out of the way in any manner.

I am aware that hinged gates or partitions constructed on the lazy-tongsprinciple and arranged to extend across the car have been proposed, andthat these have been arranged in alternate order on opposite sides ofthe car and have been made to swing horizontally.

This I do not claim. In my construction I do not arrange myshallow-stall partitions in alternate order, but in two series arrangedat opposite ends and on opposite sides of the car as clearly shown, andl hinge the stall-partition at the end of one series nearest the middleof the car, for the purposes specified.

I do not wish to claim herein the arrangement of shallow stalls on bothsides of the car, nor the arrangement of the gates to turn up edgewiseinto the stalls, as these are shown and described in former patents ofmine 5 but What I do claim is- 1. In a stock car provided with shallowstalls and partition-gates to turn up into said stalls, the posts E,suspended by their upper ends and provided with means for securing thefree end of the gate thereto, substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

2. In a stock car provided with shallow stalls to house the heads of theanimals, and gates hinged to the partitions to separate their bodies,the partition between adjacent stalls, hinged to the car and arranged toswingaround horizontally, substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

3. The combination, in a stock-car provided with shallow stalls andpartition-gates to turn upinto the same, of the fixed bars I I, arrangedacross the car above the gates, and the said gates, all arrangedsubstantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. The combination, to form a swinging and folding partition in astock-car, of a stall-partition arranged and hinged to swinghorizontally, and a partition-gate pivoted in said partition andarranged to turn up on end alongside of it, the stallpartition beingprovided with means for fastening it in position when turned out intothe car, substantially as set forth.

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5. In a stock-car, the combination, with a partition-gate, C, arrangedto turn up on edge,

. of the elastic fastening secured to the opposite side of the car, andprovided with a recess to receive the gate-stile, and springblocks n topress laterally upon the stile when it rests in the said recess,substantially as set forth.

6. The gate (l, arranged to turn up into the shallow stall, and providedwith a lower slat, q, constructed substantially as and for the purposesset forth.

7. The combination, in a stock-car provided with shallow stalls, asshown, of the suspended post E, provided with pin e and detent g, thecleats d d to steady the foot of said post, and the gate C, with a notchto engage the pin e in the post, substantially as set forth.

v8. The combination, in a stock-car provided with shallow stalls, asshown, of the bar I',

hung from the post B, the suspendedpost E, and the gate G, allconstructed and arranged substantially as set forth.

9. A stock-car provided with shallow stalls to house the heads of theanimals, divided into two series, said series being arranged at oppositeends and on opposite sides ofthe car, and the stall-partition nearestthe center of the car arranged to swing around horizontally, whereby awider passage is made for convenience in loading and unloading,substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

STEPHEN P. TALLMAN. Witnesses:

HENRY GONNETT, ARTHUR C. FRASER.

